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How to Handle Your Children’s Fears And Forgetfulness

Fears We all have secret fears, which may seem silly to others but are very real to us. The adult who fears flying can be shown safety statistics, but at…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

Family & Relationships

How to Handle the Chores And Conflict Cycle in Children

Chores Child care experts are divided into two groups: the philosophers who expect children to work for the common good of the family; and the pragmatists who buy and bribe.…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

Family & Relationships

How To Handle Oppositional Behavior in Your Children

One of the most common and difficult problems I see is the child with entrenched opposition. When this problem is in its most minor form the child is reluctant to…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

Family & Relationships

How to Handle Children Discipline Carefully – The Dos and Don’ts

Ignore the unimportant As parents we can't help ourselves, our child waves a fragment of red rag and we charge like a wounded bull. If the plan is to maintain…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

Family & Relationships

How to Hand Out Hard Rewards In Parenting

Now we are entering the real world where humans encourage action through gifts, favors, privileges, money and bribes. Hard rewards are particularly useful for the older child, adults and Olympic…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

Family & Relationships

How to Get Your Teens to Communicate With You and Chat With You

Many parents do not take the opportunity to examine the way they and their teenagers communicate. It seems to be one long fruitless argument, caused by their pigheadedness and laziness.…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

Family & Relationships

How to Get Your Teens to Accept and Enjoy Family Holidays

Up until their teenage years, children tend to accept fatalistically that holidays are something that adults plan and visit upon you. For many, family holidays are a special treat, as…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

Family & Relationships

How to Get Your Kids Qualification from Education

Your offspring, by law, are entitled to full-time education up to the age of 19 and, until they are 16, this is your responsibility. We want the best for our…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

Family & Relationships

How to Do Cumulative Rewards For Children

As children get older they can appreciate rewards that are more abstract and less immediate. Now they can visualize the payout from stars, points or tokens. Star charts Stars allow…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

Family & Relationships

How to Discipline Your Children When They Resisting Bedtime

Active, energetic preschoolers often do anything to avoid sleep. They turn bedtime or naptime into chase time, crying time, or finding-another-book-to-read time to postpone the dreaded bed. No matter what…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

Family & Relationships

How To Discipline Your Children When They Get Out of Bed at Night

Children under six years old are famous for piping up with late-night requests for books, kisses, milk, or getting in bed with their parents. Remember that your child's need for…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

Family & Relationships

How to Get Your Children to Tidy the Bedroom

I often wonder if there is a tidiness gene. If there is, some children are born with this vital bit missing. With untidy children we must accept there will be…

Roberta Southworth February 26, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Get Along with a Person who has Depression

The person suffering from depression is not the only one who is affected by this disease. Everyone who comes into contact with someone who is even moderately depressed will feel…

Andrew Reinert February 25, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Eat Smart for Depression

It is not uncommon for someone who is depressed to find that their eating patterns go haywire. There is no one particular eating pattern associated with depression, although a severely…

Andrew Reinert February 25, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Ease Your Depression by Giving up Smoking

Smoking and alcohol tend to go together, and, like alcohol, smoking prevents fatty acid from being metabolised properly into the phospholipids essential to brain health. We are told that after…

Andrew Reinert February 25, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Ease Depression by Reducing Your Alcohol Consumption

When you are depressed, it is easy to turn to alcohol as a temporary escape from your reality. But this exacerbates the symptoms of depression and interferes with the treatment,…

Andrew Reinert February 25, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Define Depression

There are broadly two categories of depression: the reactive type, which comes on as a result of some external circumstance, such as the death of someone close to you, losing…

Andrew Reinert February 25, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Deal with the Problems with Your Doctor’s Choice of Antidepressants

When you go to your doctor with the symptoms of depression, how does the doctor decide which of the many available antidepressants they would be best prescribing? The truth is…

Andrew Reinert February 25, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Cope with Addiction and Depression

The relationship between addiction to alcohol and drugs and depression is a complex one. Studies have shown, for instance, that people suffering from depression are about twice as likely to…

Andrew Reinert February 25, 2010

Health & Personal Care

How to Choose Vitamins and Minerals That Enhance Absorption of Fatty Acids

Certain vitamins and minerals support the absorption of fatty acids in the body. Zinc, magnesium and vitamin B6 have been particularly shown to do this . Zinc: a trace mineral…

Andrew Reinert February 25, 2010